Pacific Garden Mission (Chicago, Ill.)
Organization
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 047 Papers of Melvin E. Trotter
Collection
Identifier: CN 047
Scope and Contents
Sermons, personal memorabilia, audio tape of Trotter's preaching, negatives, photographs, minutes, reports, newspaper clippings, and correspondence related to Trotter's ministry as an evangelist and in rescue mission work. Collection combines Trotter's papers and the City Rescue Mission's records, including invitations to speak, responses to invitations from Trotter to speak at the mission, an abstract of a deed, requests for funds, testimonials to the good work of the mission, reports from...
Dates:
Created: 1899-1972
Collection 140 Oral History Interview with Everett Mitchell
Collection
Identifier: CN 140
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Everett Mitchell (1898-1990) who as a teenager sang invitation songs at Billy Sunday evangelistic campaigns. Other topics discussed include: Mitchell's background, music and radio career, musical training, Billy and Helen Sunday, evangelistic work in Chicago, Gipsy Smith, Homer Rodeheaver, other evangelists, career as a war correspondent during the Korean War, religious use of radio, evangelistic rallies and crusade music. The time period covered by the intervew...
Dates:
Created: 1989-1980
Collection 237 Records of the Slavic Gospel Association
Collection
Identifier: CN 237
Description:
Correspondence, minutes, prayer letters, audio tapes, films, and other materials documenting the work of the Slavic Gospel Association among Slavic peoples, primarily Russians. Records deal with the early career of Peter Deyneka Sr.; work of individual missionaries; long range planning for the mission; media ministry (radio, film, both before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union video, literature); and evangelism in Europe, North America and South America. Collection contains...
Dates:
Created: 1922-2002
Collection 399 Oral History Interview with Paul E. Johnson
Collection
Identifier: CN 399
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Paul E. Johnson (1909-1997) in which he talks about his family background; conversion; lay witness as a musician involved in the work of Pacific Garden Mission and various prison ministries; Chicago in the 1930's; the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle; the Christian Businessmen's Committee; Paul Rader, Jack Wyrtzen, Roger Malsbary; and the early days of Youth for Christ in Indianapolis. Other topics discussed include the Great Depression in Chicago, and Johnson's...
Dates:
Created: 1988
Collection 451 Papers of Bernard L. J. Litchman
Collection
Identifier: CN 451
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of diaries, negatives, photographs, and slides created by Bernard "Jack" Litchman about his work with Africa Inland Mission in the former Belgian Congo (now Zaire), mostly among the Balendu people, in and around the Linga mission station, as well as involvement in setting up Sunday Schools, churches, itinerant preaching, and other mission activities as well as working as a health officer for the Belgian government.
Dates:
Created: 1917-1971
Herbert J. Taylor Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 020
Brief Description
Correspondence, photographs, reports, publications, posters, minutes of meetings, and other documentation of Herbert J. Taylor's long involvement in the leadership of such organizations as Child Evangelism, Youth for Christ, Christian Service Brigade, Pioneer Girls, Young Life, National Association of Evangelicals, Fuller Seminary, Christian Workers Foundation, and Inter-Varsity as well as his role in the planning and development of Billy Graham's Chicago crusades and of Key '73. Other...
Dates:
Created: Ca. 1916-1979
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- City missions. 4
- Conversion. 4
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 4
- Radio in religion -- United States. 4
- Chicago (Ill.) 3
- Evangelistic work -- Chicago. 3
- Fund raising. 3
- Mass media in religion. 3
- Missions. 3
- Belief and doubt. 2
- Bible. 2
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
- Catholic Church. 2
- Children. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Church and state. 2
- Cities and towns -- United States. 2
- Cities and towns. 2
- City missions -- United States. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Australia. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Canada. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 2
- Fundamentalism. 2
- Mass media in religion -- United States. 2
- Preaching. 2
- Religious institutions. 2
- Sermons, American. 2
- Sunday schools. 2
- Unshackled (Radio program) 2
- Women 2
- Women -- Religious life. 2
- Youth 2
- Youth -- United States 2
- Youth -- United States -- Societies and clubs. 2
- African Americans. 1
- Alaska. 1
- Aleuts. 1
- Baptism. 1
- Belief and doubt -- Sermons. 1
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 1
- Bible -- Sermons. 1
- Bible stories, Russian 1
- Billy Graham Moscow visit (1982: Moscow, Russia) 1
- Boys -- United States 1
- Boys. 1
- Boys. -- United States -- Societies and clubs. 1
- Bulgaria. 1
- Businessmen -- Religious life -- United States. 1
- Businessmen -- Religious life. 1
- Businessmen. 1
- Catholic Church -- United States. 1
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Religion. 1
- Children -- Conversion to Christianity. 1
- Children -- United States 1
- Children -- United States -- Conversion to Christianity. 1
- Children -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- Children. -- United States -- Societies and clubs. 1
- Christian life -- Sermons. 1
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 1
- Christian literature. 1
- Christianity and culture. 1
- Church and social problems. 1
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Church and state -- United States. 1
- Church work with children. 1
- Church work with immigrants 1
- Church work with immigrants -- United States. 1
- Church work with military personnel -- United States. 1
- Church work with military personnel. 1
- Church work with prisoners -- Illinois. 1
- Church work with prisoners. 1
- Church work with refugees. 1
- Church work with students -- United States. 1
- Church work with students. 1
- Church work with youth -- United States. 1
- Church work with youth. 1
- City missions -- Chicago. 1
- City missions -- Grand Rapids. 1
- College students -- United States 1
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- College students in missionary work. 1
- College students. 1
- Communism. 1
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Description and travel. 1
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 1
- Conversion -- Sermons. 1
- Czechoslovakia. 1
- Dance 1
- Dance -- Christianity. 1
- Death -- Sermons. 1
- Death. 1
- Depressions 1
- Depressions -- 1929 1
- Depressions -- 1929 -- United States. 1
- Deyneka, Peter, 1931- -- Sermons. 1
- Eskimos. 1
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 1
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